17 Responses to “The Buffalo Tea Party: Blame the Poor”

It’d be easy to accuse you of using a straw man rhetorical device, but for the fact that there are actually people out there who believe this Marie Antoinette bullshit and actually strive for a Dickensian plutocracy reminiscent of America’s gilded age.

Fortunately they’re on their way to society’s margin and history’s dustbin, but between Citizens United and the gerrymandering of many Congressional districts, the Kochs and Dick Armey still have plenty of rubes to put their puppets in power. Ugh.

One thing is clear, for sure: JQT didn’t fully benefit from the public school system he funded with his hard-earned tax dollars. Indeed, John – shut up. Why do you insist on showing the world you were never taught how to write a sentence properly?

I don’t know that fellow. It’s easy to pick one person and claim he speaks for the tea party. The real tea party is a revolt against the corporate state, which by definition is controlled by rich people. The (real) tea party candidate for president, Ron Paul, is supported by small donations from working class people.

Also – the JQTs post is very reminiscent of Allen Coniglio’s pathologically unhinged cleansing of humanity rant from a couple of years ago. But remember – they’re not racist! Because Chris Rock uses the N-word! Or something.

Has anyone bothered to look at the numbers of people on Medicaid who are the Senior Citizens and Disabled in this county and what percentage of the total bill goes to Nursing Homes, Home Care, etc.
Maybe we should put them all on an Ice Flow in Lake Erie and cut our losses?

I tend to agree with this guy. Look how fast our economy could be growing if we just threw the poor people out on the street like they do in India. While we are at it we need to stop building our infrastructure so that is also looks like India. Not to mention once we do cut off the poors we can use them instead of the Mexicans to do stuff really cheap.

That (#6 above) would be Allen Coniglio, who I believe is co-head (with Jim O) of the WNY Tea Party Coalition. You can read more of Coniglio’s thoughts on how “slacking is in the genes of welfare recipients” who have been “bred [by whom?] to do nothing but slack and vote for Democrats” and how we need to “cleanse humanity” of these “worthless, violent slackers” before enacting libertarian ideas, here (see following “I wouldn’t join a group . . .”) and here (Comment #3) .

” Afterall it is time the poor who created this mess, let them help fix it.”

yes yes some rube in a trailer park caused the housing meltdown, the bank meltdown and the offshoring of millions of American jobs. Those beer swilling WWE watching bastards are going to get theirs I’ll tell ya…

#9 makes an excellent point. While with any program, private or public, there will be abuse, but the fact of the matter is we have an aging population. It doesn’t help that one of the first things people do when confronted with a parent who can no longer take care of himself is hide the assets.

So the “100% of county property taxes goes to medicaid” sounds ominous. However I look at the breakdown of my tax bill and it amounts to a shade under $550. or a shade over 45 bucks a month. On the other hand my school tax is about $1,730. and I have no children in the system. You know what? I’m ok with both. Would I like less taxes? Sure, but in the meantime I like being part of the fabric of society. I like that those that came before me gave my mother comfort in her last years and that my son got a real chance to make something of himself through a great public education which has him in a top five grad school program. I don’t want to be the dick that says well I got mine screw the rest of you. Call me crazy.